World of Tanks, the free-to-play WWII-themed online battle game from developer Wargaming.net, will expand its reach to the Xbox One console sometime in 2015. The game was first released for the PC in 2010 and Wargaming launched an Xbox 360 version in 2013 that has since been downloaded over 5 million times.

Microsoft has historically been less than enthusiastic towards free-to-play Xbox 360 games. They did allow Japanese developer Toylogic to release Happy Wars (a 15-vs-15 multiplayer action game) last year. But here we are one year later and hardly any free-to-play games have followed it. And yet things are starting to change...

During Microsoft’s E3 Media Briefing, the publisher revealed that popular PC Massively Multiplayer Online game (MMO) World of Tanks would receive an exclusive console version called World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition. Console gamers could be forgiven for not knowing this, but Wargaming.net’s World of Tanks is actually one of the largest and most popular MMOs in the world. The 360 port just might prove to be a big deal.

This week we sat down with Microsoft and Wargaming to learn the ins and outs of World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition and then shot a video with Associate Producer Olga Zinoveva as she played a multiplayer match on the E3 2013 show floor. Watch it after the break!